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Comment Re:Didn't we know this already (Score 1) 235

I've seen the same documentary. It wasn't long after I'd learned about episodic waves. However, applying the name "Rogue" to these waves as if rogues were things that appeared unexpectedly because of combined currents in the sea is even more blasphemous than discovering science that's already been invented.

Comment Re:mainlining (Score 1) 105

*sighs* yeah man. i was joking about how the kernel is called "mainline" and thus features get "mainlined." Mainlining is a drug term appropriated for the kernel. Arguments claiming that mainline is a plumbing or railway term are false: that term is "main line," and it's not a term that needs definition, it means what it says, the main (most used) line. Nothing to do with the word "mainline." And yet the kernel is called mainline.

Additionally using the TLA "DRM" in your device driver is the kind of horrible idea someone could only come up with while having some of that sweet sweet black juice running through their veins.

Furthermore calling it V3D is extremely misleading, as it's not a 3d driver, nor is it virtual reality.

So all in all it seemed like a good opportunity to call out all of these idiocies appearing at once. But thanks to you the joke is ruined. Congratulations.
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Noisebridge Attempts to Teach Science To Juggalos 198

Working on the assumption that the Insane Clown Posse's song Miracles was indeed a tribute to the wonder of nature and not the cleverest troll ever, some folks from the hackerspace Noisebridge decided to try and educate ICP fans. Surprisingly, most of the fans seemed to enjoy the science lesson, but representatives of the band didn't seem to think it was funny.

Comment Use a Makefile (Score 1) 426

Since you're doing tests, your tests should have outputs, so use a makefile. This will allow you to test only things that have changed, since makefiles have built-in timestamp checking. For instance, let's say you have a series of ".test" files, and ".output" files, and a command "runtest" that runs your test, you can use a makefile like this:

TARGETS = one.output two.output three.output

all: $(TARGETS)
    cat *output > /dev/printer

%.output: %.test
     runtest $<

Comment Re:Ted Dziuba (Score 1) 619

At least it's about programming. Let's look at some of the other Slashdot topics today...

FOSS denies sexism
Slashdot rules upgraded
Vista Didn't Suck
Remember that Cloud with the Thunderbolts?
Robot Spiders ... in your ass, so your doc doesn't have to smell you. expect mild discomfort
Piracy!
Insecurity
Fake Brain That Doesn't Work Open Sores'd
Reading linked to Skin Cancer by solar e-Book
Euro's take over space, guns that don't kill

So much technology, so little science. So much politics, so little engineering. That's slashdot for you - it's the cultural aspects of a very logic-ridden community. A little piece about a programmer, even a fool corporate whore programmer who stands for ridiculous anti-programming principles, is appreciated by this little one, at least.

Comment Re:Ted Dziuba (Score 1) 619

He's a model for embellishing beneficial corporate stereotypes. It's also best not to start programming until you enter college, and then only as necessary for your appropriate classes. Wouldn't want to clutter up your brain with worthless languages now would Inc?

Working at home takes energy you could be giving to the Corp. If you insist on working on your off-time, at least work on a side-project for your own job like a person who truly appreciates his job. No more of this dilly dallying making social networks, video games, and suspicious network tunnels at home; optimize Billy Joel's three-year-old equipment maintenance prediction system, written in ASP! What, you don't like ASP? Fuck, you must be one of those kids who learned to program when he was 3 and always thought he was better than Inc's trained monkeys, just because he knew how a for loop works! The arrogance, the boastfullness, the lack of respect for proper tried and true authority is simply outstanding!

.... so, that's why.

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